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Quotes About Intimacy

He said that when you are in love with someone, you want to follow them to the bathroom. He said love just makes you pathetic.
~ Heather O'Neill
Rose had grown up in a room filled with sixty other girls. She was used to the intimacy of other female bodies. When a girl reached out a hand to her, Rose always instinctively grabbed it. Poppy was not used to touching other women. Poppy was that strange thing: an only child.
~ Heather O'Neill
He was and probably still is, to this day, the worst-smelling person I have ever hugged. But it was wonderful. He just wrapped his arms all the way around me. He hugged me the way that parents hug: with them doing all the work.
~ Heather O'Neill
Jules always told me not to tell people your business, not to tell them your past. He said to keep them guessing. He said that once a person knew all there was to know about you, they'd take advantage of you. Trust nobody, he'd told me over and over. In a way, I'd kept his advice up until just then. I was stoned and felt like sharing all my shit with the whole world. I wanted to be taken advantage of.
~ Heather O'Neill
He lay on his back, floating in the large bath, his penis like a lily pad.
~ Heather O'Neill
The only time the world shows you any favor, or cuts you any slack, is during that very brief period of courtship where the world is trying to fuck you for the first time.
~ Heather O'Neill
But wasn't it better to have someone who was always gushing annoyingly about love than someone who was reserved with it?
~ Heather O'Neill
When I open a book now, I was seized with desperation. I felt as if I was madly in love. It was as if I were in a confession booth and the characters in the book were on the other side telling me their most intimate secrets. When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe.
~ Heather O'Neill
Because they travelled together, they developed intimacy. This was something other orphans didn't have. Intimacy makes you feel unique. Intimacy makes you feel as though you have been singled out, that someone in the world believes you have special qualities that nobody else has.
~ Heather O'Neill
Learn how to lean into Jesus. Let Him hold you close until you can hear the rhythm of His heartbeat. Then you will know when to rest, when to run and when to release!
~ Heidi Baker
Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess, with a very bad man between her thighs... Mum... Hi.
~ Helen Fielding
On the night bus, I felt as though parts of other people were going into parts of me I didn't even know existed. I felt like I was being more intimate with members of the night-bus community than I'd ever been with anyone in my whole life.
~ Helen Fielding
Oh God. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, "How's your marriage going? Still having sex?
~ Helen Fielding
Bad enough when a man wanted to touch but could only look. Worse yet when he'd touched and not even noticed.
~ Helen Fielding
Puedo confirmar de manera oficial que hoy en día no se llega al corazón de un hombre a través de la belleza, la comida, el sexo o un carácter seductor, sino simplemente aparentando que no estás muy interesada en él.
~ Helen Fielding
The point, dear Davis, is that sometimes what you want is nothing more than to put your name beside someone else's, someone whom you love. Stretch your name out alongside theirs as though it was you, lying next to them.
~ Helen Humphreys
But there is not space to mention all my friends and indeed there are things about them hidden behind the wings of the cherubim, things to sacred to set forth in cold print.
~ Helen Keller
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
~ Paulo Coelho
Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
~ Adam Hamilton
I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.
~ Jonas Mekas
Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.
~ Kirby Puckett
When there is stuff being written about your family and people ask you questions which are very personal in nature, it makes you defensive and almost makes you angry.
~ Abhay Deol
I am not against kissing on-screen but I definitely do not want to be written about for the number of kisses I have had on screen.
~ Neha Sharma